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enFormer CRN Wireless exec plans mobile PERS venturehttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/former-crn-wireless-exec-plans-mobile-pers-venture
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<div class="field-item even">Nicholas Puro sees &#039;huge market&#039; beyond senior demographic</div>
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:datePublished dc:date"><span class="date-display-single" property="schema:datePublished dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-03-13T00:00:00-04:00">03/13/2013</span></div>
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"> <p>CENTEREACH, N.Y.—Nicholas Puro, who stepped down as CEO of CRN Wireless in February, is looking into a new venture that would turn traditional personal emergency response systems into a “one-stop shop” for mobile lifestyle monitoring and management.</p>
<p>Puro envisions a platform that would reach beyond senior citizens, the typical demographic for PERS, and beyond standard applications. It would blend physical security and home automation with features ranging from slip-and-fall detection to Web access and the ability to monitor medication use.</p>
<p>“You want to keep [users] connected with their health care provider, their doctor, maybe their pharmacy,” Puro told Security Systems News. “Also, the system would interact with their family. I’m trying to envision a one-stop shop where we combine a lot of different technologies. Some users might be technology-challenged, or some just might want ease of use. You want to just push one button and be able to access and manage everything.”</p>
<p>Puro said the goal is to help people remain independent and in their own homes for as long as possible with a system that can be enhanced as they age. Potential users include people with disabilities or specific physical or pharmaceutical monitoring needs. Reminders to take medications or reorder them could be provided via email or text.</p>
<p>“I think you look beyond the senior demographic,” Puro said. “It’s a huge market of people who, if they had the right support and felt comfortable staying independent longer, they would do so. And I think technology can solve that at a very reasonable cost to the user.”</p>
<p>While he is focusing on providing the platform and not necessarily the PERS devices, Puro envisions mobility for the user through a “mini cellphone” that doesn’t have all of the functionality of a full phone. Other electronic devices could be connected to the system for monitoring and management.</p>
<p>“Where I’m coming from—and there are others out there who are going to do it too, but I think there’s plenty of space in the industry—is to have the backbone that these other devices can plug into and be a part of,” he said. “An analogy would be to see the iPhone as the platform. Someone develops the platform, and then you have apps that can work on the platform. Lots of people can come up with different apps that can work for different situations, but they need to be plug-and-play with the platform itself.”</p>
<p>Puro said CRN’s technology would be well suited for two-way voice communication with a central station or health care workers. Medication schedules for the user could be done online.</p>
<p>“So what you really have is essentially dual communication,” he said. “One, what you can do over the Internet, the other being a cellular connection for the mobile. But it can all be coordinated.”</p>
<p>Puro said he was still laying out the groundwork for the venture and it was too early to predict when it would be up and running. “I’d like to say six to nine months, but I still have to flesh out more of the details with my team,” he said.</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="Former CRN Wireless exec plans mobile PERS venture" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:11:08 +0000Leif Kothe16200 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/former-crn-wireless-exec-plans-mobile-pers-venture#commentsAT&T gets into mobile PERS; Puro resigns at CRN Wirelesshttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/blog/att-gets-mobile-pers-puro-resigns-crn-wireless
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<div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"> <p>Mobile PERS is fast becoming the land of the giants.</p>
<p>AT&amp;T is the latest to get into the game, announcing on Feb. 21 that it will provide the wireless network and location services for Libris, a mobile health management system from Seattle-based Numera Inc. The news follows <a href="http://www.securitysystemsnews.com/blog/hot-button-who-s-getting-mobile-pers-now">ADT’s announcement in January</a> that it’s getting into mobile PERS by partnering with Toronto-based health tech provider Ideal Life.</p>
<p>The target market for both ventures is similar: active senior citizens looking for an extra measure of safety, and those with chronic conditions who want health monitoring inside and outside the home. Libris delivers by integrating biometric readings, two-way mobile voice, automated fall detection and location tracking.</p>
<p>“Incorporating continuous monitoring of an individual’s activity, location and important health measurements, [Libris] breaks new ground in bringing together personal safety and telehealth in a mobile device,” said Chris Penrose, senior vice president of emerging devices for AT&amp;T, in a prepared statement. </p>
<p>While the competition for remote patient monitoring is getting more intense, there’s probably a lot of room left in the sandbox for players of all sizes. The telecare and telehealth market is expected to exceed $1 billion by 2016 and grow to $6 billion by 2020, according to Numera.</p>
<p><strong>Puro resigns at CRN Wireless:</strong> In other PERS-related news, e3 Investment Partners announced this week that Nicholas Puro has resigned as CEO of CRN Wireless. He will focus on other opportunities in network services, monitoring and security, according to an e3IP news release.</p>
<p>“I am particularly interested in network services and wireless monitoring in the medical and pharmaceutical field,” said Puro, who is listed on LinkedIn as managing director of e3IP. “There are vast opportunities for new products and services ranging from fully mobile personal emergency response systems to wireless monitoring of pharmaceuticals through the cold chain.”</p>
<p>Earlier this month, CRN Wireless <a href="http://www.securitysystemsnews.com/also-noted/crn-wireless-launches-4g-cellular-communicators">launched two 4G cellular alarm communicators</a> through its AlarmPath division.</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="AT&amp;T gets into mobile PERS; Puro resigns at CRN Wireless" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:33:47 +0000Rich Miller16144 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/blog/att-gets-mobile-pers-puro-resigns-crn-wireless#commentsCRN Wireless launches 4G cellular communicatorshttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/also-noted/crn-wireless-launches-4g-cellular-communicators
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<div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>CENTEREACH, N.Y.—CRN Wireless, a wireless communication company for the security alarm industry, has launched two 4G cellular communicators by its AlarmPath division, according to a company statement.</p>
<p>The two communications products—the AP-D432 full data and the AP-S432 summary data communication devices—feature 4G cellular technology that also supports 3G and 2G communications across multiple carriers. CRN has incorporated its OptimalConnect feature in all its 4G devices, which automatically chooses the latest-generation cellular network available and transmits alarm signals at the fastest speed possible to the central station.</p>
<p>“Our customers can install our alarm communication devices with less concern over the upcoming sunset of the 2G networks,” said Nick Puro, CRN’s CEO, in the statement.</p>
<p>Dealers use CRN devices for wireless communication on new installations or to modernize existing alarm systems in their subscribers’ premises, the statement said.</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="CRN Wireless launches 4G cellular communicators" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:37:46 +0000Leif Kothe16096 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/also-noted/crn-wireless-launches-4g-cellular-communicators#commentsNearNet radio retired after 22 years of servicehttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/also-noted/nearnet-radio-retired-after-22-years-service
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<div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>CENTEREACH, N.Y.—CRN Wireless, a provider of M2M signal processing for the security alarm business and a manufacturer of wireless alarm communicators, recently announced that a NearNet UHF alarm radio was retired after 22 years of continuous service.</p>
<p>The radio, which was installed in June 1990, was returned for minor repairs by the New York Security Exchange of Coram, N.Y. Monitoring for the entire 22 years had been provided by the same CRN central station.</p>
<p>“Twenty-two years of continuous RMR, that’s an amazing return on investment for the New York Security Exchange and the central station,” said Nick Puro, CEO of CRN, in a prepared statement. “It prompted our decision to reward [the exchange] with a new NearNet UHF device and retire the 1990 device to the CRN museum.”</p>
<p>Anthony Saunders, CRN’s technical director, said the company was confident that the new NearNet device “will provide another 22 years of fail-safe wireless service.”</p> </div>
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<span property="dc:title" content="NearNet radio retired after 22 years of service" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:40:17 +0000Leif Kothe15769 at http://www.securitysystemsnews.comhttp://www.securitysystemsnews.com/also-noted/nearnet-radio-retired-after-22-years-service#comments